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Since you're in Canada, and it's a liquid, I'm going to go ahead and assume it's in a bag based on recently acquired knowledge about milk.
Labatt's? Moosehead? Molson?
That's my extensive knowledge of Canadian beer. I am sure they are the Coors of beer up there. Pray tell what was the potent potable that had you all a flutter?
It's a Moosehead! I was right! And, it's expensive!
They haven't announced pricing yet, so estimates on some audio sites are in the thousands of dollars. Saying under $500 for a used one will get you laughed at. So I really got lucky with this one.
Too bad that Radio Shack turned its back to turntables. I used to get pissed when they did not carry radio components.
I think they're just "The Shack" now, assuming they haven't gone completely under.
They may be moving that way, both name and down for the count, but the one just a block from my home still has full on Radio Shack on everything as of yesterday.
Thousands of dollars for the 1200-unit limited edition DJ version, yes (magnesium tonearm, other amenities). The standard version (aluminum tonearm) is supposed to be much less.They haven't announced pricing yet, so estimates on some audio sites are in the thousands of dollars. Saying under $500 for a used one will get you laughed at. So I really got lucky with this one.
They filed bankruptcy a long time ago and closed approximately half their stores and sold the rest to Sprint (sorta). The one nearest us actually wasn't owned by Tandy, they were just an affiliate. Now instead of being an affiliate with Radio Shack, they're an affiliate with Steren, which was essentially the Radio Shack of Mexico.
--Patrick
I believe they've become The Source up here in the Great White North...They haven't announced pricing yet, so estimates on some audio sites are in the thousands of dollars. Saying under $500 for a used one will get you laughed at. So I really got lucky with this one.
The one up the road, and the two in the malls around here both say "radio shack"
Their website still has the R logo and the "radio shack" name as well.
https://www.radioshack.com/
It's weird going into Radio Shack now. It was the coolest/nerdiest place to go when I was a kid. Now, I don't think there is a nerd-culture store. CompUSA/Circuit City are gone. I now have to scroll through lists on NewEgg to simulate my nostalgic perusing.
Comic-Gaming shops have still held their own. I forgot about them.
Comic-Gaming shops have still held their own. I forgot about them.
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Just like Blockbuster, they could've saved themselves. Instead of becoming a generic cellphone kiosk, they should've embraced hackerspaces. They could've made so much money since they had the advantage of a pre-existing supply network and the household name. They did start selling arduino kits, but it was too little, too late, and too expensive to compete with the chinese sites that sell direct-from-factory. It would've benefited the hobby electronics scene, too.
I disagree. I honestly don't think that even now there's enough of a market in the maker movement to support even the number of apple stores (270 in US) we have, nevermind the number of radio shack stores they had before the last big closing (over 5,000 radio shacks in the US, now below 4,000).
Further, Radio Shack cannot compete on price and number of items in stock to online stores. Sure, sometimes you have an emergency maker project, but most projects are planned, take time, cost sensitive, and often need one or two oddball parts. This means you have to order online for the oddball parts, you don't mind waiting a few days for delivery, and you want the price break you get from ordering online compared to a retail store.
Retail stores are really suffering as a general rule, except with perishables (food, restaurants), items where the pricing, and sales is tightly controlled via policy or contracts/industry regulation or unions (apple, car dealerships), items that are big/bulky/difficult to ship (home improvement warehouses), items you really do have to try before use (expensive clothing), and items you need unexpectedly and urgently (automotive parts).
If you're going to open a brick and mortar store, you are in for a rough ride if you don't fit into one of these or a similar category for a similar reason (urgency, service, try before you buy, perishable, or otherwise difficult/expensive to ship).
Some of these will lose advantage as the FAA allows for more drones and drone technology improves. Imagine one Dominos per large city, sized as a huge factory with hundreds of drones pumping out thousands of pizzas per hour, delivery guaranteed in 15 minutes, and the pizza finishes cooking in flight so you get it hot, fresh, and quickly. Do the same with a grocery store - you don't need to go out for one big shopping trip once a week, you just pick up your phone and you get a carton of milk within the hour, or a box of cereal. You eventually develop a profile and it automates delivery once a day at a set time for you so you no longer shop so much as receive your goods on a schedule.
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Well, I'm no entrepreneur, but In any case, it would've been a better attempt than entering an oversaturated cellphone market as part of whatever unconsolidated business plan they were executing. Your average joe on the street has no idea what RS sells or why they exist anymore.
Clearly, the online sources are cheaper, but I don't think RS has to compete heavily with the price of the online stores. They'd compete on local availability and availability of an expert. Just look around at the DIY sites bemoaning the loss of RS. This was the place you'd go spend 10X as much, knowing full well that you are because it's right there. If you're in a makerspace, you're not necessarily there to make a planned out project. Also, the maker market stands to increase its size when both of these are available. One of the big things hampering this potential market is the closed nature of it. Current makerspaces are fairly unwelcoming and unknown, even if they don't intend to be. We've seen this in other sectors, like computers and cellphones and gaming. Remove the niche mystique and make it available, and buyers come. That's risky, but not as risky as doing jack squat.
Radioshack will always hold my tech nostalgia since our first computer (TRS80) and VCR came from there, and they had a big impact on me.
Radio Shack's decline started long before Amazon, when their executives started leaning more towards mass-produced premanufactured goodies (remote control cars, cell phones, toy electric guitars, "robots") rather than components and electronics. RS could have used their wide presence and mfr connections to become an electronics/computer store (televisions, receivers, radios, components...like Best Buy but without appliances and media), but someone somewhere was too focused on boosting margin when they should've been focused on boosting market share, and now they're too far gone to regain that sort of cred.
--Patrick
--Patrick
Last night, I managed to do a workout I've never done before: the DDP Yoga Double Black Diamond workout. 65 minutes long. By the end, I was exhausted. My mat and clothes were soaked in sweat. But I did it.
Photographic proof of exhaustion:
Photographic proof of exhaustion:
My mom is telekinetic?!?
And now you realize that all those times she made you bring in the groceries were bullshit.
So, updating this, while the first girl I met way back when I posted this didn't work out, the second one I met a couple of weeks later? Well...
It actually happened back on Christmas day, but de-lurking is so much effort.
Congrats @Reverent-one! All the best!